Following on from my recently-created Orchestrate module for Node-RED, I’ve now created a similar set of nodes for another cool new kid on the databases block – Crate. As it has been brought to our attention that we haven’t done a great job of...

Hello again! As an update to my last post about how to pipe data through a Node-RED flow and out to Orchestrate, I decided to go whole hog and produce a proper Node-RED (and NPM) module for the task. There are two nodes, one for putting information in, and one for...

In this article I’m going to show how you can get your Node-RED flows talking to your Orchestrate database. For novices to Node-RED and using it to consume web APIs, you can also view this as a model for that kind of work in future. First, allow me to introduce...

We have been using the Logentries.com service for years now on a wide variety of devices and platforms. It’s great to have a central location to access and search all the logs from multiple projects in one place. I recently found NodeRed which is a fantastic...

During a recent hardware hackathon, held by PCH International on DCU’s Innovation Campus, the team I was a part of created a fridge monitoring setup for pharmacies. We built a “smart-shelf” – pressure-sensitive shelving prototyped in acrylic...

Over the weekend, Jason and I attended the first PCH Hardware Hackathon in Ireland, held in the DCU Innovation Campus in Dublin. As part of a nine-person team we’ve since dubbed TeamFive, we built a smart shelf for stock management in fridges (specifically...

I installed a Raspberry Pi at home. Running Raspbian Wheezy at the moment. It is running Apache, php and some other suites. It is logging to the cloud at logentries.com . I bought a small robot arm kit at the Science Gallery and assembled that; hooked it up to the Pi...

Previously, I wrote a small article describing how my cloud based server logs from Logentries were sending alerts to my phone via SMS. This time, for fun, I have taken it one step further and now an alert from Logentries triggers the lights in my home to flash red...